In 1980 the Australian Peter Allen released the album “Bi-Coastal”. The work produced by David Foster featured everything that was good and expensive in Los Angeles in terms of musicians and songwriters …
…Toto members Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro, guitar-playing producer Jay Graydon, backing singers Richard Page and Steve George, who later became known as Mr. Mister, and a razor-sharp brass section around Jerry Hey and Larry Hall. Nevertheless, the album was a great success. More than 123 place did not jump out of the billboard charts for musical and show star Allen – and former husband of Liza Minnelli. What you can’t understand. Because the album had class and quality; great songs, great musicians and with Allen a singer who changes sovereign and with a clear voice between ballads and dancefloor-funk-soul. The title track belongs to the latter category. The number written by Allen and Foster together, like most of the eleven songs, ignites a demanding drive from the first bar and sets real highlights with some cleverly set breaks. The title is great for dancing. Whoever wants to enjoy the song, in which, as I learned later, Allen made his bisexuality a theme, but only quietly, experiences highly talented musicians and a singer in top form. Foster arranged the song powerfully but not overloaded, analog recording provides acoustic warmth. At the beginning of the 80s, when I discovered the album in a record store in Regensburg, the album warmed my heart. I heard it, with plenty of wine and nicotine, almost all night long.
